Charity Sermons-On Sunday, June 13th, two Sermons will be preached on behalf of the Charity Schools belonging to the Unitarian Chapel, Hackney. The Rev. J. G. Robberds, of Manchester, has kindly engaged to preach the morning sermon. For further particulars respecting this and the foregoing notices, see advertisements on the Wrapper. · Our readers will see by an advertisement on the cover, that an Evening Lecture is about to be preached in the new and elegant chapel in Stamford Street, Blackfriars, of which the Rev. Dr. Thomas Rees is the minister. The first lecture will be delivered on Sunday Evening, June 13, by the Rev. J. G. ROBBERDS, of Manchester. Service to begin at halfpast six o'clock. THE Yearly Meeting of the Eastern Unitarian Society will be held at Ipswich, on Wednesday, June 30th, and Thursday, July 1st. Mr. Scargill, of Bury St. Edmunds, will preach on the Wednesday evening, and Mr. Aspland on the Thursday morning. EDWARD TAYLOR, THE Rev. J. H. Bransby, of Dudley, has accepted an invitation to preach before the Southern Unitarian Society, at their Annual Meeting, at Chichester, on Wednesday, the 30th of June. 'There will be a Lecture in the evening, for which a preacher is not yet engaged. THE Anniversary of the Southern Unitarian Fund Sermon, hitherto held in the Easter Week, at Portsmouth, is, for the present year, postponed, until the close of the summer. The fortnightly Lectures, established by this Society in Portsea and neighbourhood, have been, during the winter, ably supported by the Revds. J. Fullagar, Wm. Hughes, S. Walker, E. Kell, W. Stevens and Baird. THE Annual Meeting of the Kent and Sussex Unitarian Christian Association will be held at Maidstone, on Wednesday, June 30th, when the Rev. W. J. Fox is expected to preach. THE Chapel erected for the Unitarians at Todmorden, near Halifax, will be opened on Whit-Sunday, and the Association of Unitarians in that district will be held in the same chapel on WhitMonday, when the Rev. Dr. Philipps and Messrs. G. Harris and W. Stevens are expected to preach. LITERARY. THE Rev. Dr. Evans, of Islington, has in the press a little volume entitled, Rich mond and its Vicinity, with a Glance at Twickenham, Strawberry Hill and Hampton Court. PREPARING for publication-Helon's Pilgrimage to Jerusalem: a Picture of Judaism in the Century which preceded the Advent of the Messiah. Translated from the German of F. Strauss. With Notes and Illustrations by the Trans lator. Early in June will be published, The Works of Vicesimus Knox, D. P., in Portrait by Ward. seven volumes, 8vo. with au Engraved MR. SPARKS, recently pastor of the Unitarian Church in Baltimore, having retired from his pastoral charge, has purchased the establishment of the North American Review, and will, in future, be the Editor of the work. The high character of this Review has procured for it extensive currency and distinguished reputation, both in America and in Europe. It is now, in fact, in a considerable degree identified with the American literary character. We are assured, that it will lose nothing on the score of literary merit by the recent transfer. Mr. Sparks is said to be a most accomplished scholar. -Man of Letters. NEW PUBLICATIONS IN THEOLOGY AND GENERAL LITERATURE. The Etymologic Interpreter; or, An Explanatory and Pronouncing Dictionary of the English Language. To which is prefixed, An Introduction, containing a Full Development of the Principles of Etymology and Grammar, &c. &c. &c. By James Gilchrist. 8vo. Part I. 85. 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In consequence of the length of the interesting Debate in the House of Lords upon the Unitarians' Marriage Bill, we are obliged to leave out various articles of Review, Intelligence, &c., which had been prepared and designed for the present Number, including the Report of the Anniversary of the Protestant Society for the Protection of Religious Liberty, Lord Holland in the Chair. We have received the following donations sent at the request of the late Mr. Henry Bowman, of Shrewsbury, For Unitarian Fund £5 0 0 For Protestant Society for the Protection of Religious Liberty 5 00 By an oversight in the last Unitarian Fund Register, the following benefaction to the Society, by the hands of Mr. Aspland, was omitted to be acknowledged,Mrs. Mary Hughes, Bristol £50 0 0 Subscribers or others having duplicates of No. 133, of the Monthly Repository, containing the Memoir of the late Rev. W. Vidler, may have other Numbers in exchange, or the value in money, for that Number, with or without the Portrait, on application to the Publishers or the Printer. Monthly Repository. No. CCXXII.] JUNE, 1824. [Vol. XIX. Dr. J. Pye Smith in Reply to Professor Chenevière, on the late Theological Controversies at Geneva. SIR, Homerton, June 8, 1824. EPLORING, as I cannot but do, ments between yourself with probably the majority of your readers, and the person who now addresses you, I am assured of your entire concurrence and cordial support in any well-meant attempt to vindicate the rights of humanity and to protest against domination over conscience, or any of the forms of oppression, for the sake of religious opinions. Professor Chenevière's "Summary of the late Theological Controversies at Geneva," appears to me to require some animadversion in this point of view. He has made an extremely uncandid and unjust attack upon persons, whom I regard as deserving the esteem of all the friends of liberty and religion and he has committed a heinous aggression against the dearest right and most imperative duty of mankind, the open profession and peaceable practice of religious conviction. The general effect of M. Chenevière's verbose and declamatory production might be safely trusted to the perspicacity of your readers. An enlightened Englishman, familiarized to the principles of religious liberty, cannot fail to discern, through the diffuseness of the Professor's style and the cloudiness of his reasoning, an arrogance of pretension and an assumption of claims which would have well befitted a St. Dominic or a Gregory VII. Melancholy indeed it is, to see men who occupy the higher stations among the citizens of a renowned Protestant Republic, and who boast of their glory and purity, their knowledge and virtue; yet proving that they have not learned the first rudiments of truth and reason with regard to the rights of conscience, free inquiry, and honourable profession of religious belief. VOL. XIX. 2 T I wish to spare my time and the patience of your readers, by maintaining the utmost brevity: but I fear I have to advance into very narrow limits. Misrepresentation can seldom be corrected in as little room as it is made. I must also premise that I write only from my own resources. I have not sought to my friends at Geneva for information; nor in writing to them, have I alluded to M. C.'s paper. That paper itself, with such a general acquaintance with the facts as I conceive myself to be possessed of, is sufficient for the occasion. I. I request your attention to the pusillanimous and evasive manner in which M. C. and the major part of the Genevese clergy endeavour to hide their religious sentiments. Scarcely was the venerable Benedict Pictet cold in his grave, when a general lukewarmness, and soon a manifest departure, took place with regard to the great doctrine of the Reformation, (and which I must call by an infinitely higher title, the principal doctrine of the Scriptures,) SALVATION AND HOLINESS BY GRACE, THROUGH FAITH IN A DIVINE REDEEMER. After twenty years of management, and secrecy like that of the heathen mysteries, (for thus it was judged prudent to cajole the people,) in 1725 subscription to the Confession of Faith of the Reformed Church of Geneva was abolished. In less than thirty years afterwards, D'Alembert posted the majority of the Genevese clergy as Deists in disguise: and their miserable defence exposed them helpless and silent to the triumphant exultations of their neighbour at Ferney, and the indignant tauntings of their fellow-citizen J. J. Rousseau. M. C. and his party, in the present day, have shewn themselves worthy imitators of their ancestors and models in subterfuge. Why have they, for so many |